John R. "Jack" McCloskey, a native of Goldfield, Nevada, was born in 1911. His parents had left Leadville, Colorado, in the wake of labor violence there. McCloskey attended local schools in Goldfield and Tonopah, always interested in the newspaper...

Leon Halliday Rockwell, a native of New York, was born in 1888. He received a grammar school education near Elmira, New York, and then was forced to begin his career. As a very young man, he started west, working at a variety of jobs from railroad...

In the autumn of 1989, the University of Nevada Oral History Program was informed that the American Folklife Center, a department of the Library of Congress, held in its collection numerous audio tapes made in Virginia City in 1949 and 1950. The...

W. Wallace White, a native of Utah, was born in 1905. His family moved to McGill, Nevada, about 1910, due to the copper boom in that area. Mr. White received his education in local schools of White Pine County and at the University of Nevada. His...

Archie Murchie’s action-packed career in the U.S. Forest Service began in 1929, when rangers routinely spent much of their time in the saddle, and ended in 1965 as they were becoming increasingly desk bound. The Free Life of a Ranger is Murchie’s...

Photograph of the mining camp at Groom, in the foreground are men with burros, in the background, an automobile and Groom Lake; Caption on image: 1917; caption on original negative envelope: Groom, April 1917; photographic print, 3.5 x 4.25 inches

Photograph of two women on burros in foreground, tent in middle ground and Goldfield in background; Title taken from photograph; Part of Titsworth Photo album entitled: Views of Goldfield, Nevada. Photographic print, 8 x 10 inches

Mrs. Amy Thompson Gulling is a member of Reno's oldest family. Her grandmother, then a widow with three children, married the town's founder, Myron Lake. Mrs. Gulling's mother had vivid childhood memories of crossing half the continent from...

Jean Ford was born in 1929 into an era of major transformations for women in the United States. During her lifetime doors were opening for a few bold and talented women whose actions changed the roles women would play in our country. Jean's life...

Andrew D. Crofut is a Nevadan in the true sense. What does this mean? Crofut was born in 1889 and grew up on a ranch in Diamond Valley at the juncture of Eureka and Elko counties. The ranch provides the focus for a major portion of this memoir. The...